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| These guests are the repeat offenders.
The ones who were asked back to take some more shots at the topics on offer.
Since they were considered interesting enough to
be invited back on the show, they ought to be interesting enough to deserve
these little profiles.
Please note that since there are quite a lot of them now, I've only written profiles for guests who have been on at least three times. |
| Guest | |
| Peter Fitzsimons | Peter Fitzsimons is a former Australian rugby star who also played and lived in Italy and France. He is now a top journalist and TV personality who throughout the 1996 Atlanta Olympics reported for The Sydney Morning Herald, The London Telegraph and CNN. He is also a best selling author who has hosted his own television show. - Profile "Borrowed" from here. |
| Adam Hills | Adam Hills is one of Australia's finest stand-up comedians. He's definately one of my favourites. He has a cheerful and enthusiastic manner that means I can laugh out loud at his material over and over again (hence why I bought his CD of his show "Go You Big Red Fire Engine" and have listened to it many times since), and that also succeeds in leaving all his audience members feeling good after seeing him. He's a fantastic comic, and has managed three appearances on the Glass House so far, despite spending much of his time overseas. His latest major achievement is the release of a single of his version of the National Anthem - set to the tune of "Working Class Man" - known as the "Working Class Anthem", with the help of the "Comedy Brig-aid", a collection of his comic compatriots. Monies raised from the sale of this single go to the Australasian Fire Authorities Council, so I urge you to buy it, if you like his work. Go you big red fire engine! |
| Julie McCrossin | Julie McCrossin worked in many jobs before she began a career in the media. She has been a bus driver and an actor in a children's theatre company, among many other things. But, she is best known to many as the chirpy, intelligent woman who sat on the right hand side of our TV screens on Good News Week. She appeared on Good News Week, as a guest, soon into it's first series in 1996, and soon took over as the second team captain, replacing Anthony Ackroyd. As well being an ardent campaigner for women's and gay rights, Julie writes for the Friday edition of the Australian Financial Review, hosts "Life Matters" on Radio National and studies part-time for her law degree at a Sydney university. In late 2000, after the demise of Good News Week, Julie hosted her own six-part chat show, McCrossin, on the ABC. - Profile "borrowed" from Tangawarra, the net's finest comedy website, with thanks. |
| Clio Creswell | With a total of three appearances in the first few months of the show (only if you count the pilot), and four all together, Clio must have something going for her.
You have to wonder how someone who has a Doctorate in Applied Mathematics manages to be so popular on a comedy show, but Clio seems to hold her own. Currently working at Uni of NSW, Clio can apparently be found in "The Red Building"* |
| Amanda Keller | In her career so far, I have seen Amanda Keller as a host of Beyond 2000, and dressed as a giant sausage on one of Roy and HG's shows. Suffice to say, she's an adaptable performer. She's also taking 3rd place - by a very narrow margin - in the most frequent Glass House guest stakes. A popular guest on GnWTV's former production, Good News Week, Amanda has continued her popularity as a guest now that they're producing the Glass House. She currently co-hosts the MMM Breakfast Show, with Mikey Robins and Peter Berner. |
| Charlie Pickering | Charlie comes a very close second in the "Most Episodes" awards. He is a very popular guest with seven appearances to date. Currently co-hosting the JJJ Drive Show with Nicole Fossati, Charlie has also been involved in Melbourne's Stagetime, Enter the Datsun, and previously had a recurring guest spot on the JJJ Breakfast Show (which no doubt helped him get a permanent ABC position *g*). |
| Adam Spencer | Host of the JJJ Breakfast Show (assisted by Wil) and maths nerd extraordinaire, Adam has become famous for trying to make science seem cool. These days, he's also famous for being the most frequent guest of them all on the Glass House, with a total of eight regular appearances, and one standing in for Dave Hughes. He's also famous for dropping his trousers on the show in front of Lauren Burns, but a lot of people are going to great lengths to forget that, so I think he's more infamous for it than famous. |
* = Source, UNSW website.